NEC Corporation of America has granted Michigan State University (MSU) with a gift to the school’s College of Engineering to fund biometric research. As reported by CBS Detroit, the gift will fund ongoing research on fingerprint matching and facial recognition. It will also help start new research in the school’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing […]

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has added fingerprint recognition to its arsenal of tools to help identify suspects, reports WCTV. The office has invested about $144,000 in the Rapid ID system. This portable system identifies suspects by taking and reading their fingerprints. It then can immediately tell if the suspect has a criminal […]

The Romanian Police no longer have access to their extensive set of databases that help them recognize and identify fingerprints and faces due to poor maintenance of the systems, reports Romania Insider. The police use an Imagetrak database that contains many physical characteristics about registered suspects. For fingerprint recognition the police use AFIS 2000. The […]

ABI Research has updated its 2012 market forecasts for the smart card and secure IC market from 261 million to 540 million units. The drivers behind this growth are increased demand for secure microcontrollers with high security and authentication capabilities for the anti-counterfeiting and NFC secure element sectors. While this quarter’s information has remained the […]

Canada Post is releasing a new version of its epost digital mailbox platform to add functionality and start leveraging government and business services. Along with design and navigational enhancements and improved bill management tools, it also features a new authentication process that connects a digital identity with a physical address. Users will be able to […]

Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced a partnership agreement with Toronto-based Invixium Identity. The agreement enables Invixium to become a value-added reseller of Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine (FVAE) and the H-1 Biometric Finger Vein scanner. The FVAE system promotes IT security through its identity assurance process and accurate matching. It uses near-infrared light to transmit light […]

Identity services platform provider UnboundID and LexisNexis Risk Solutions have teamed up to provide a way to integrate cloud-based identity authentication and verification services. This service will enhance the levels of security and assurance of identity attributes exchanged in real time. In this system, users of LexisNexis services will connect through the UnboundID identity platform. […]

Open source content management platform Drupal has added VASCO Data Security International Inc.’s MYDIGIPASS.COM for DRUPAL v6 to its contributed models. With it, Web developers can embed secure login access for the sites they build within the Drupal platform. This v6 module integrates two-factor authentication into websites built on the open source platform. It also […]

The Leyte Provincial Government in the Philippines has developed and deployed a biometric system for the purpose of authenticating recipients of cash grants from teh Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid para sa Pamilyang Pilipino (4Ps) project. As reported on Asia Pacific Future Gov, the cash grants are given to extreme low-income households […]

DigitalPersona Inc. has launched the next-generation version of its U.are.U Software Development Kits (SDKs). The new SDKs enable biometric authentication through easy integration to be able to offer high protection against voter and entitlement program fraud. The system meets the requirements for making standards-based development tools, which provides for the expansion of fingerprint biometrics throughout […]